[Developers] how should I transform Wikipedia SVG images for use in Freebase?

[Tom Morris]

> Will Freebase support SVG natively?

I'd like to see SVG support as well.  It's no more bulky or less
standard than any of the three supported types, so I'm not really sure
why it's excluded.  Perhaps just an oversight...

> Is it possible to transform SVG -> PNG in a lossless way?

No, rasterization (the conversion from vector to raster format) is an
inherently lossy process.  You can lose as little information as you
like by increasing the resolution/size of the rasterized image, but,
of course, that has other problems associated with it.  Your best bet,
from a quality point of view, is to rasterize at the resolution that
it will be ultimately used at, so that it doesn't have to be resampled
later.

Tom